---
type: "Bill"
title: "RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION."
description: "Renames Mokulele highway on Maui as the Maui veterans highway."
jurisdiction: "us/states/hi"
legislature: "Hawaii Legislature"
session: "2017 Regular Session"
identifier: "SB 283"
citation: "Hawaii SB 283 (2017 Regular Session)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Mokulele Highway"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["BAKER", "Green", "Harimoto", "INOUYE", "K. RHOADS", "KEITH-AGARAN", "Nishihara", "S. Chang"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55d08f14-bb3c-43b5-b0c1-694e7860b3f3"
source_url: "http://capitol.hawaii.gov/Archives/measure_indiv_Archives.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=283&year=2017"
source_hash: "338f5041fe3ca4791e1c5dc24d9f9655b3a81bc432de84bbb716506edc20b15b"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-hi"]
---

# Hawaii SB 283 (2017 Regular Session) — RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Renames Mokulele highway on Maui as the Maui veterans highway.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **SB283** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2017/bills/SB283_.HTM)

## Votes

- The committee(s) on TRE recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — **3–0** (pass) · legislature
- The committees on VMI recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — **6–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- BAKER — primary (person)
- Green — primary (person)
- Harimoto — primary (person)
- INOUYE — primary (person)
- K. RHOADS — primary (person)
- KEITH-AGARAN — primary (person)
- Nishihara — primary (person)
- S. Chang — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-20** Introduced. `introduction`
- **2017-01-23** Passed First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2017-01-23** Referred to TRE/IAA. `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Re-Referred to TRE.
- **2017-02-24** The committee(s) on TRE has scheduled a public hearing on 03-01-17 1:15PM in conference room 225.
- **2017-03-01** The committee(s) on TRE recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in TRE were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Inouye, Dela Cruz, Harimoto; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) English, Shimabukuro. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-03** Reported from TRE (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 694) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
- **2017-03-03** Report adopted; Passed Second Reading.
- **2017-03-03** One Day Notice 03-07-17.
- **2017-03-07** Passed Third Reading. Ayes, 25; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 0 (none). Transmitted to House. `passage`
- **2017-03-07** Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 111). `introduction`
- **2017-03-09** Pass First Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-03-09** Referred to VMI, TRN, referral sheet 27 `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-13** Bill scheduled to be heard by VMI on Thursday, 03-16-17 9:30AM in House conference room 429.
- **2017-03-16** The committees on VMI recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Ito, Tokioka, Cachola, Choy, Ohno, Ward; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Onishi, Woodson. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-22** Reported from VMI (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1205), recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to TRN.
- **2017-03-22** Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on TRN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Ichiyama, C. Lee, Lowen excused (3). `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-07** Re-referred to VMI, referral sheet 40 `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-07** Reconsideration of action taken on 03-22-17.
- **2017-04-07** Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Ohno, Saiki, Souki excused (3). Transmitted to Senate. `passage`
- **2017-04-11** Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 542). `introduction`
- **2017-04-10** Enrolled to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2017-04-26** Act 011, 04/26/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1111). `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-26** Act 011, on 04/26/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1111). `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/55d08f14-bb3c-43b5-b0c1-694e7860b3f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).